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Le château en bref
Kerjean Castle, in Saint-Vougay (Finistère), was built between the 1540s and the 1590s for the Barbier family, later raised to the rank of marquis de Kerjean. One of the finest surviving examples of Renaissance architecture in the Léon country, it combines a Renaissance-style residence with a defensive enclosure featuring bastions and casemates, which was rare for this type of building at the time. The marriage with the Coatanscour family enlarged the estate in the 18th century, until the marquise de Coatanscour was arrested, imprisoned and then guillotined in Brest during the Revolution, leading to the confiscation of the estate. It subsequently passed to the Brilhac family from 1802, and then to the Forsanz-Coatgoureden family. Bought back by the State in 1911 and listed as a monument historique, it was restored from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Owned by the French State (Ministry of Culture), the castle, set in an estate of 20 hectares that includes a remarkable dovecote, is open to the public and managed by the public cultural cooperation body Chemins du patrimoine en Finistère.